Bucket List

“Open your eyes and see what you can with them before they close forever.”

— Anthony Doerr

Things I Want To Do Before I Die

Spend an entire day blindfolded.
✅ Help prevent someone from committing suicide.
Create music that uses one or more of the following:
- Morse code
- Turn signal
- Piano strings
- Ability to play it forward or digitally reversed and it’s still sensible
Help find a missing:
- person
- pet
- item
Watch a storm from start to finish (as it rolls in and rolls out of an area).
Go surfing.
✅ Write a song.
Play the Phantom of the Opera on an organ.
✅ Hold an armadillo.
✅ Continue to try new foods.
Stargaze while listening to inspiring music.
✅ Create a sandman at the beach.
✅ See a wild whale.
Write an autobiography when I’m 30.
✅ Stay awake for 3 days straight.
✅ See a wild owl.
Write & illustrate a book of stories.
Help build a treehouse, secret fort, or other hideout.
Go to a rooftop party / concert.
Have a rummage sale.
Build an army of snowpeople or sandpeople.
✅ Win a contest.
Kiss someone in a cornfield (“between the ears” haha)
✅ Watch a giant harvest moon.
Witness a total solar eclipse.
Be so far into the ocean (on a boat) that you can’t see land from any direction.
✅ Attend a light show.
✅ Attend a temple dedication.
Build an adult-sized blanket fort.
✅ Go peach picking.
✅ Stand in a field of lavender.
Learn how to tie a quick bowline knot with one hand.
See a narwhal in real life.
Go to a clock store at noon and listen to them all chime at the same time.
Wade through a flooded cranberry bog.
✅ Find a street sign with my name on it.
Hug a koala.
Watch 30 sunsets in a row.
See a false killer whale.
✅ Go on a 2 year church mission.
Create an “I Spy” image.
✅ Dream in Spanish.
✅ Recognize God’s influence in my daily life.
Give someone a Christmas surprise.
✅ Take a 3 month focus fast from something.
✅ 40 day fast from something.
✅ Help others live a better quality of life.
Have an insanely fun Christmas party with all the good things of life.
✅ Take a nicely elevated photo of the Ogden temple.
Complete my mission journal.
✅ Have a homemade YouTube video reach 1,000 views.
Create a Christmas party car.
Read the entire Book of Mormon in Spanish.

Things I Want To Eat Before I Die

Cooking:

Giant Klondike bars.
Get so good at making something that I can call it my “signature” dish.
Invent a signature sauce (with exact measurements).
Create a signature broth.
Healthy (and tasty) key lime pie.
Taiwanese beef noodle soup.
Master how to make grits.
Significantly improve my ability to grill food.
Make bagels (This is here because you have to boil the dough, and that is WEIRD).
Create butter candles (try with cheese too)
Bake melon pan turtles